Let Us Throw Off Everything That So Easily Entangles

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By Paul Thigpen on January 1, 2010 ,

 You Can't Run With Rocks In Your Pockets!

When my father was a little boy, he and his favorite aunt, Lily, would often take long walks on the beach near his grandfather’s summer cottage. According to Aunt Lily, on one of those walks one warm summer evening, Dad gathered such great armload of stones from the shore that he tired himself out. So he asked her to carry him the rest of the way home.

“I’ll gladly carry you,” she said, “but I won’t carry all those heavy rocks! You’ll have to get rid of them first.”

Dad’s legs were aching, but he was reluctant to part with his newfound treasures. Suddenly he thought of a solution to his dilemma. “I know!” he said with a triumphant grin. “I’ll just put ‘em in my pockets—then you won’t have to carry ‘em!”...

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Paul Thigpen

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Paul Thigpen is the editor of TAN Books and was appointed as a lay representative on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ National Advisory Council, speaking frequently at conferences and scholarly gatherings in the U.S and abroad. He earned a B.A. in Religious Studies from Yale University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Historical Theology from Emory University. A best-selling author, Dr. Thigpen has published forty-two books, including Manual for Spiritual Warfare and Saints Who Battled Satan: Seventeen Holy Warriors Who Can Teach You How to Fight the Good Fight and Vanquish Your Ancient Enemy, and more than five hundred articles for both scholarly and popular audiences. His work has been translated into twelve languages.

 

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